Ashvale, 4 Bath Street, Stonehaven

Ashvale, located at 4 Bath Street in Stonehaven, is a villa built around 1820, with later additions. This two-storey, three-bay building features classical detailing and has a piend and platform roof. It is set in a large garden and constructed from sandstone ashlar with rusticated quoins, while the sides are rendered. The cornice and blocking course are returned and terminate at the east and west elevations, and it includes stone mullions.

On the south (principal) elevation, the central bay at ground level has a panelled timber door with leaded margined glass sidelights and a coloured glass fanlight that displays the name 'ASHVALE'. Above this, there is a shallow wide-centre tripartite window, and to the right, a single window on each floor, with the ground floor window being corniced. To the left, there is a later full-height canted window.

The west elevation features a modern conservatory on the ground floor to the left, with a window in the centre on the first floor. The east elevation has a garden wall abutting at the outer left and single windows in the outer bays on the first floor.

The villa predominantly has a small-pane glazing pattern in the upper sashes, with plate glass in the timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar wallhead stacks with polygonal cans.

Inside, there is some moulded plasterwork cornicing, a timber fire surround, and a dog-leg staircase with turned timber balusters and a square newel post.

The property includes a walled garden, railings, a gate, and gatepiers. The garden wall is coped and built from rubble, while the low wall to the street features inset decorative ironwork railings with spear-head finials. There is also a similar decorative vehicular gate flanked by a pair of tall, square-section corniced and coped ashlar gatepiers.